Letter: Spending budgets for education

Saturday

The reductions in educational budgets by federal and state authorities, budgets that support state and local education defy logic.

The reductions in educational budgets by federal and state authorities, budgets that support state and local education defy logic.

Sure, we need to address responsible budgeting but how that is done makes no sense. So, why not make cuts in spending in overseas aid, military spending, special interest spending and others to further support education. Or, how about reducing the size of government by let’s say 25 percent, without disrupting services. Corporation’s do it regularly to adjust to changing economies and yet maintain customer service. Education is the most important investment the USA and the states can make in the future of the country.

But I suppose this imbalance in logic is understandable considering a good friend of my is working a four day work week at one of the local military bases as a result of sequestration and the people who enacted it remain fully paid and have given up nothing. I recall working for very large corporations in leadership positions and when four day work weeks were invoked to offset radical cyclical periods, everyone from the CEO to the general managers to the plant managers had equivalent pay cuts — 20 percent. That is leadership. And that is what we need in Washington, DC.

I cringe every time I hear one of our representatives say, “in the best interest of my constituents” which in government language does not translate to “what’s good for the country.” I am positive “constituents” translates to who pays my campaign expenses.

We have a badly broken government system. I would submit it thrives on its on favoritism, entitlement mentality and other forms of corruption.

Our Congress people need a large dose of what some of our tasteless pickup truck owners have hanging off their trailer hitches. Term limits would help as well. Or, possibly we could have a few of the USA's premier CEO's, those with proven integrity, run the country for a while. My forecast would be that many people would lose jobs at the start, the CEO's would invest the tax payers money in productive ventures in the USA and around the world, we would become a world player, probably THE world player, our export numbers would grow exponentially, we would have more jobs than we could fill and the economic growth would go a long way to erasing the $16 Trillion deficit.

Mark Eichinger, Havelock

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